New Windows Version User Interface

[Kaisha]

What? R1 is just a screenshot button; I've never ever used it, and the screenshot could be easily put on the keyboard.

Console users have L1 or R1 (depending on system) used as the virtual keyboard button.


The macro line comment is baffling though. Sure sign that the devs are probably clueless on the way a fair amount of English speakers play FFXI.

Anyways, with the UI update, is there any word on buffs in our buff-bar (for lack of a better term) having their duration times displayed on them?

[Midorikaze]

SE can't do this unless they pay MS for licensing fees for the NA and EU versions. The chances of that happening are slim to none given very few people with the NA version would use it.

Count me among that small crowd. :P

Still, I don't get why/how one big corporation has this monopoly thing going on where only they have the rights to market their program that types in different languages. That's like a copyright on a human language. -_-;;;

[Dazusu]

I'm intrigued, does producer Tanaka still use DOS? Copy/Paste is one of the staple PC functions since 1995 (that's almost 20 years ago...),

The game is a PS2 port, it's not native to the windows API.

[Riggs]

What would be totally amazing if we could link items in the chat menu's to the actual item and then other people could click on it and it would bring up a description window of the item. to explain it i typed the following line in /t, /l or /s
/t friends name hey you should try the scorpion harness

i could use the mouse to high light the word scorpion harness and right click on it, the game would search its data base for items with this name and give me a list, i select the one i meant and then when i sent it it will show up a different colour to the person i sent it to so he knows he can click on it and it will open up a small window with a picture of the scorpion harness and the stats.

I hope i explained that ok, anyone who has played eve online will know what i meant

[Camiie]

Hello everyone!

I have some comments from Producer Hiromichi Tanaka to share in regards to some questions raised about the new UI.

You poor thing.

Oh, I forgot to mention this. For those who are very comfortable with the old UI, it will be possible to choose between the new and old UIs.
※This is an either-or selection, so it would not be possible to use parts of the new UI.

Fail.

The new UI is geared for keyboard and mouse users, so these new pallets will only be implemented for keyboard and mouse use.

Even more fail.

And they screw it up just like I predicted. Ah well, Boss Tanaka is nothing if not consistent.

[Vivivivi]

The one "killer" feature I would personally love to see in the new UI is a way to easily call out weakness hints in Abyssea or Voidwatch. Whether it be a designated chat palette, colored text, or simply the option to set the chat filter on it to hold like party/linkshell/shout/say text, it would be awesome!

Very excited to see what else the dev team has in store around this.

[Zhronne]

I find this most disturbing, I play with a game controller/keyboard combo because that is what this game was originally designed for, making it so your new UI is keyboard mouse only will disappoint quite a lot of players that were excited by the UI changes, I was looking forward to the UI changes, now I'm disturbed

^this x 10.000

I play on PC with a Joypad, using keyboard just for chitchat and some hotkey command etc

[JiltedValkyrie]

No controller support in the new uI... what the heck? Who the hell plays with a mouse? I play on my bed with a keyboard and 360 controller.

[Arcon]

Fail.

What exactly is so fail about that?

No controller support in the new uI... what the heck? Who the hell plays with a mouse? I play on my bed with a keyboard and 360 controller.

I may just as well ask who could possibly play this with a controller. I used to do it, but as soon as I realized how incredibly gimp it is compared to simplest keyboard controls, I never bothered with it again.

I see no failing so far. If it's even half as good as the OP made it sound I'll be amazed. And currently there's nothing to indicate otherwise (well, apart from SE's track record with these things).

[JiltedValkyrie]

I said gamepad and keyboard, not gamepad only. They want to use mouse. That is the fail. Not everybody wants to sit at a desk and game or play on a laptop, many of us sit at a desk all day as it is...and we have our computers hooked up to our bigscreens for comfort. A mouse is not comfortable in this setup and character movement is much better with a controller for me. Even FFXIV has commands to access every menu. What's so hard about this?